- Gunpowder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Printing Quotes
Lines on the printing press, publishing, and its modern successors.
These quotes treat printing as historically transformative, comparing the printing press to gunpowder's effect on war, and as a modern economic question in the shift toward e-books, which avoid printing and shipping costs entirely. See Age-Old quotes for more historical reflection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Cheap
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
- Greatest Weapon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to remember there is not a big printing press in Washington that continually prints money over and over.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next episode of 3D printing will involve printing entirely new kinds of materials. Eventually we will print complete products - circuits, motors, and batteries already included. At that point, all bets are off.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
- American Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.
- Curse
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- Nov 07, 2020